The Routledge history of Western empires / 
 History of Western empires 
edited by Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie. 
 - London;  New York :  Routledge Taylor & Francis Group ,  2014. 
 - xvii, 522 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction<br/>ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE<br/><br/>Why colonialism?<br/>ROBERT ALDRICH AND KIRSTEN MCKENZIE<br/><br/>PART I Mapping the imperial turn <br/>Introduction<br/>1. Spanish-Indian encounters: the conquest and creation of new empires / FELIX HINZ<br/>2. Floating Franks: the Portuguese and their empire as seen from early modem Asia / JORGE FLORES<br/>3. Empires, the Age of Revolutions and plantation America / TREVOR BURNARD<br/>4. Facing empire: indigenous expriences of European empire in comparative perspective, 1760-1820 / MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL AND KATE FULLAGAR<br/>5 .An early scramble for Africa: British, Danish and French colonial projects on the coast of West Africa, 1780s and 1790s / PERNILLE ROGE<br/><br/>PART II Planning empire<br/>Introduction<br/>6. The theory and practice of empire-building: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and 'systematic colonisation' / TONY BALLANTYNE<br/>7. Convict labour and the Western empires, 1415-1954 / CLARE ANDERSON AND HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART<br/>8. New dynamics and new imperial powers, 1876-1905 / MARK I. CHOATE <br/><br/>PART III Locations of empire<br/>Introduction<br/>9. Empire at the floe edge: Western empires and indigenous peoples in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean, c. 1820-1900 / ANNALIESE JACOBS<br/>10. Empires of the Coral Sea  / CLIVE MOORE<br/>11. Colonialism in Palestine: science, religion and the Western appropriation of the Dead Sea in the long nineteenth century / JACOB NORRIS<br/><br/>PART IV People of empire<br/>Introduction<br/>12. Native women of the Americas in power (c. 1530-1880) / BLANCA TOVIAS<br/>13. Neighbourly relations: nineteenth-century Western interactions in the Asia-Pacific region / CINDY MCCREERY<br/>14. The Ottoman Roman Empire, c. 1680-1900: bow empires shaped a modem nation / NICHOLAS DOUMANIS<br/>15. The making of the coloniale under the Third Republic / MARIE-PAULE HA<br/><br/>PART V  Imperial sciences<br/>Introduction<br/>16. Expanding Flora's empire: Linnaean science and the Swedish East India Company / CHRISTINA SKOTT<br/>17. Anthropology and the British Empire / MARTIN E. THOMAS <br/>18. Health and disease in the colonies: medicine in the Age of Empire /LAURENCE MONNAIS AND HANS POLS<br/>19. Imperial science or the Republic of Poison Letters? Venomous animals, transnational exchange and colonial identities / PKTKR HOBBINS<br/><br/>PART VI Imperial spaces<br/>Introduction<br/>20. Place and space in British imperial history writing / ALAN LESTER<br/>21. Lines across the sea: trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam / FRANCES STEEL<br/>22. Empire and city: the imperial presence in urban India / JIM MASSELOS<br/>23. Hill stations, spas, clubs, safiuis and colonial life / ERIC T. JENNINGS<br/><br/>PART VII Imperial cultures<br/>Introduction<br/>24. Ottoman art, empire and the Orientalism debate / MARY ROBERTS<br/>25. Environment and visual culture in the tropics: the Netherlands Indies, c. 1830-1949 / SUSIE PROTSCHKY<br/>26. At play on the football fields of empire? / JOHN CONNELL<br/>27. Pax Romana transposed: Rome as an exemplar for Western imperialism / PATRICIA M.E. LORCIN<br/><br/>PART VIII  Maldng and unmaking empire<br/>Introduction<br/>28. British missions and missionaries in the high imperial era, c. 1857-1914 / JASON BRCNKR<br/>29. Religion and empire in the South Seas in the first half of the nineteenth century / JOHN GASCOIGNE<br/>30. Violence and empire: the curious case of Belgium and the Congo / MATTHKW G. STANARD<br/>31. Human rights and empire / ROLAND BURKE<br/>32. Resisting decolonisation: empire and Republic in post-war France / MARTIN C. THOMAS<br/><br/>Epilogue: imperial fi4ctions. Thinking through impediments in empire history / ANTOINKTTK BUR TON 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415639873 (hbk.) 9781315879499 (ebk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imperialism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Colonies--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.09712  / ALD/R